Public Cloud Jobs in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 274 105
Rank change year-on-year -148 -169 +140
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 283 896 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.58% 1.00% 3.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 2.96% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 159 679 1,018
10th Percentile £48,450 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,924 £56,219 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,066 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -11.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £97,514 £83,759 £97,290
90th Percentile £127,500 £99,250 £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -

All Generic Skills
England

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in England.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 119 £86,250 +11.29% 132
North of England -156 55 £74,870 +19.25% 190
North West -125 33 £78,250 +24.64% 92
South West +47 31 £99,069 +40.95% 96
South East +50 26 £60,000 -7.69% 247
Yorkshire -41 21 £68,000 +8.31% 72
Midlands +2 12 £72,500 +18.45% 172
East of England +39 11 £62,500 +8.09% 112
West Midlands +5 10 £73,750 +16.83% 92
East Midlands +15 2 £68,525 +14.21% 68
North East +13 1 £45,000 -28.32% 27
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.12%) Apache
3 5 (1.77%) Confluence
3 5 (1.77%) IIS
3 5 (1.77%) nginx
4 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (2.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.71%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.71%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.35%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.35%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.77%) Azure
2 148 (52.30%) AWS
3 122 (43.11%) GCP
4 30 (10.60%) PaaS
4 30 (10.60%) SaaS
5 27 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.01%) IaaS
7 15 (5.30%) Pulumi
8 11 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.89%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.89%) Serverless
9 10 (3.53%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (3.53%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.18%) GitHub
11 8 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.12%) npm
14 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 48 (16.96%) Firewall
2 32 (11.31%) WAN
3 31 (10.95%) SD-WAN
4 26 (9.19%) LAN
5 25 (8.83%) Ethernet
6 22 (7.77%) Cisco ISE
7 20 (7.07%) DNS
8 13 (4.59%) TCP/IP
9 12 (4.24%) DHCP
10 10 (3.53%) VPN
11 9 (3.18%) BGP
11 9 (3.18%) OSPF
11 9 (3.18%) Wireless
12 8 (2.83%) IPv4
12 8 (2.83%) MPLS
12 8 (2.83%) SAN
13 7 (2.47%) NetScaler
13 7 (2.47%) Network Security
14 6 (2.12%) Structured Cabling
14 6 (2.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.01%) Big Data
2 14 (4.95%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.89%) Cloud Spanner
3 11 (3.89%) MySQL
4 9 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.41%) KDB
7 4 (1.41%) Kdb+
7 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.41%) Tableau
8 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.06%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.71%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (0.71%) Impala
9 2 (0.71%) Metadata
9 2 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (9.89%) Git
2 26 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.42%) JIRA
4 11 (3.89%) CircleCI
5 8 (2.83%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.12%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.12%) GitLab
6 6 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.12%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.12%) webpack
7 2 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.71%) Selenium
7 2 (0.71%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.71%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.35%) JUnit
8 1 (0.35%) Mockito
8 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 106 (37.46%) Finance
2 76 (26.86%) Banking
3 73 (25.80%) Social Skills
4 54 (19.08%) Law
5 37 (13.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (7.07%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.24%) Marketing
9 11 (3.89%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.18%) Retail
11 7 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.12%) Games
12 6 (2.12%) Legal
13 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.06%) Automotive
14 3 (1.06%) Back Office
14 3 (1.06%) iGaming
14 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.06%) Publishing
15 2 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 61 (21.55%) Software Engineer
2 58 (20.49%) Senior
3 49 (17.31%) Architect
4 44 (15.55%) Lead
5 38 (13.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.19%) Network Architect
7 19 (6.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.36%) Java Engineer
9 17 (6.01%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.59%) Security Engineer
13 12 (4.24%) Java Software Engineer
13 12 (4.24%) Security Architect
14 11 (3.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 11 (3.89%) Consultant
15 10 (3.53%) Lead Java Engineer
16 9 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.60%) Node.js
2 25 (8.83%) React
3 24 (8.48%) Kafka
4 23 (8.13%) JSON
4 23 (8.13%) RESTful
5 22 (7.77%) Spring Boot
6 15 (5.30%) .NET
7 13 (4.59%) REST
8 12 (4.24%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.24%) gRPC
9 8 (2.83%) Spring
10 7 (2.47%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.47%) OAuth
10 7 (2.47%) OpenID
11 6 (2.12%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.12%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (2.12%) Jest
11 6 (2.12%) Web Services
12 5 (1.77%) Middleware
13 4 (1.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.67%) Cloud Native
2 45 (15.90%) Data Centre
3 32 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (9.89%) Algorithms
4 28 (9.89%) Data Structures
4 28 (9.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (8.83%) Private Cloud
5 25 (8.83%) Product Ownership
6 22 (7.77%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.53%) Reference Data
7 10 (3.53%) Replication
8 9 (3.18%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.12%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (2.12%) Tandem
11 5 (1.77%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.41%) Hackathon
12 4 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.55%) Linux
2 49 (17.31%) Windows
3 12 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.47%) Unix
6 5 (1.77%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.41%) Android
8 3 (1.06%) Debian
8 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) SUSE
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (38.16%) CI/CD
2 88 (31.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 87 (30.74%) Agile
4 81 (28.62%) DevOps
5 71 (25.09%) Software Engineering
6 52 (18.37%) Microservices
7 47 (16.61%) Test Automation
8 44 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (15.55%) Roadmaps
9 43 (15.19%) Cloud Security
10 38 (13.43%) High Availability
11 35 (12.37%) Analytics
11 35 (12.37%) Mentoring
12 33 (11.66%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (10.95%) Computer Science
13 31 (10.95%) SDLC
14 30 (10.60%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (9.54%) Coaching
16 27 (9.54%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (39.93%) Python
2 65 (22.97%) Java
3 39 (13.78%) SQL
4 27 (9.54%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.19%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.77%) C#
6 22 (7.77%) Go
6 22 (7.77%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.95%) Bicep
8 13 (4.59%) Bash
9 12 (4.24%) Ruby
10 7 (2.47%) C++
10 7 (2.47%) Rust
11 5 (1.77%) C
11 5 (1.77%) Scala
12 4 (1.41%) Clojure
12 4 (1.41%) Elixir
12 4 (1.41%) R
12 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (15.90%) Degree
2 30 (10.60%) Security Cleared
3 28 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.07%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.53%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.47%) CCNA
8 6 (2.12%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.41%) CCNP
10 4 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.06%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.71%) CRISC
12 2 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.06%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) SLA
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) NCSC
4 2 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (20.14%) Docker
2 24 (8.48%) Active Directory
3 23 (8.13%) VMware NSX
4 14 (4.95%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.71%) HDFS
9 2 (0.71%) KVM
9 2 (0.71%) vSphere
9 2 (0.71%) Xen
10 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 122 (43.11%) Kubernetes
2 112 (39.58%) Terraform
3 73 (25.80%) Ansible
4 29 (10.25%) FortiGate
5 27 (9.54%) Puppet
6 20 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (7.07%) Progress Chef
7 14 (4.95%) Podman
8 9 (3.18%) SCCM
8 9 (3.18%) WSUS
9 8 (2.83%) Grafana
9 8 (2.83%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.47%) Istio
11 6 (2.12%) Argo
12 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.41%) Consul
14 3 (1.06%) Kustomize
14 3 (1.06%) NetBackup
14 3 (1.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 59 (20.85%) Google
2 51 (18.02%) Microsoft
3 44 (15.55%) VMware
4 35 (12.37%) Cisco
5 26 (9.19%) CheckPoint
5 26 (9.19%) F5
6 22 (7.77%) Blue Coat
7 13 (4.59%) Citrix
7 13 (4.59%) SAP
8 12 (4.24%) Oracle
9 8 (2.83%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.12%) Dell
11 5 (1.77%) Draytek
11 5 (1.77%) Ubiquiti
11 5 (1.77%) Veeam
12 4 (1.41%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.06%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.06%) New Relic
13 3 (1.06%) Okta
13 3 (1.06%) Palo Alto